Background
Gunnar Vingren was born in Östra Husby, Sweden. Vingren grew up in a Christian home.
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He served in the early twentieth century in the Amazon and Northeast Brazil. From his work came the Assembly of God in Brazil. Vingren"s father was a gardener.
When he was only 18, the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said he would be a missionary.
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In 1903, he emigrated to the United States where he majored in pastoral studies at Chicago Theological Seminary Swedish. He taught some Scandinavian Baptist churches and decided to follow his missionary vocation.
He later went to South Bend, Indiana, where the church has received the Good News and became a Penecostal Church with 20 people baptized in the Holy Spirit. At a prayer meeting in Indiana, God said that he would do missions in a Pará, Brazil.
At another praying meeting, Daniel Berg was asked to accompany him to Brazil.
On November 5, 1910, Gunnar and Berg left New York Portuguese and headed out to Pará, Brazil. Brazil
On November 19, Gunnar and Berg landed in Brazil and settling in Belém. Gunnar met a nurse named Frida Strandburg.
In the 1920s Gunnar moved to the south in order to extend their missionary activity.
Gunnar Vingren and his family went south, passing through Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo. After another series of trips, Gunnar returned a few years later to live permanently in Rio de Janeiro.
On August 15, 1932, Gunnar Vingren the pastor and his family said their goodbyes to the church in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Death
Gunnar, who lived in Brazil started to have health problems.
He returned to Sweden and his state worsened which lead to his death in 1933 at the age of 53.
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